California Lawmakers Rip Agencies For Lacking Energy Transition ‘Urgency’

Leading California lawmakers are criticizing state energy officials for lacking a “sense of urgency” in transitioning to clean power and meeting aggressive climate change targets, potentially foreshadowing new legislation to help speed renewable energy and much-needed power transmission projects. “When I hear, ‘it’s complicated and it’s just taking a while,’ I guess it doesn’t strike me as an agency that has a high sense of urgency, the same urgency that we are hearing from our constituents and other Californians. They...